News Alexandra Condon appointed as VP of Public Policy and Government Affairs at Warner Music Group Exec will act as the company’s primary point of contact for policymakers in the EU and its member states
News Did Anthropic just reveal how it will try to beat Universal’s landmark music copyright lawsuit? Anthropic responds to the Copyright Office’s Notice of Inquiry on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
News Universal Music renews deal with Chinese pop megastar Eason Chan Since joining UMG, Eason Chan has amassed over 75bn streams across all platforms
News Sean Michael Gross promoted to Vice President, Warner Classics UK & North America Gross has headed up Warner Classics in the UK since joining the company in 2021
News BMG to speed up payments to US publishing clients when their songs are used on recordings released by BMG’s US artists Mechanicals will now be paid within the same quarter
Analysis News From HYBE’s $400m+ in Q3 to Kobalt’s partnership with Morgan Stanley… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days
Analysis News Live Nation has already sold 140m tickets to its shows this year – 19m more than in the whole of 2022 Concert promoter posted revenues of $8.2bn across all of its divisions in Q3, up 32% YoY
News Concord acquires Round Hill’s UK fund, after $469m sale was approved by latter firm’s shareholders last month Deal includes over 150,000 songs and 51 catalogs
News Mariah Carey faces new copyright lawsuit over ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’ A musician called Andy Stone is suing Carey for allegedly copying elements of his song of the same name
Analysis News Sales from Seventeen, Jungkook and other BTS solo stars drove HYBE’s revenues to over $400m in Q3 South Korea-based entertainment giant HYBE has published its financial results for Q3
News Sony Music sues cosmetics brand OFRA for using recordings by Mariah Carey, Britney Spears and other artists in social media ads without permission Lawsuit was filed in Florida on Tuesday (October 31)
News Laura Mendoza appointed Managing Director, Colombia at Sony Music Publishing Exec most recently served as Head of Label and Artist Solutions Central America, Andean & Southern Cone Region at Believe
News CTM Outlander acquires catalog of songwriter and producer Ross Copperman The agreement includes a publishing deal for his future works
News The Orchard promotes Ian Dutt to President, UK and Chris Manning to Managing Director, UK & Europe Both execs will continue reporting to Colleen Theis, President and Chief Operating Officer
News Italy-based music company Artist First launches live music division, Artist First Live Artist First Live will be headed by Alessandro Fabozzi